Over the past year and a half the City of St. John’s, in collaboration with many partners in the community, has been laying the ground work for the creation of a North East Avalon Healthy Communities Alliance. The North East Avalon Healthy Community Alliance will be focused on increasing health, wellness and physical literacy in our community and recognizes the need to take a collective impact approach involving various sectors such as health, mental health, medicine, research, education, sport, inclusion, exercise as medicine, healthy eating, various levels of government, philanthropy, business, media and non-profit organizations to create significant and lasting change in the health of our communities.